Have you ever stumbled across a blank page in a Microsoft Word document, but have no idea why it's there? A few different things could be causing this. You must establish the source of the problem before you can apply the remedy.
Here are four of the most common reasons for blank pages in documents, along with possible solutions.
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Covering each printer is beyond the scope of this article, but it should address your printer. Preferences Page and look for the tab page option.
To see if a bad empty paragraph is causing the problem, you need to press Ctrl + Shift + 8 to turn on paragraph marks (A Little-Known Microsoft Office Feature 10 Little-Known Microsoft Office Features You Should Know 10 Little-Known Microsoft Office Features You Should Know Sometimes the smallest things make the biggest difference. and show you how they could be better your workflow. Read more). Scroll through the document and find the ¶ icon. To remove unnecessary ones, highlight the icon with the mouse and press Delete .
Accidental manual page breaks They are usually the cause of empty pages in the middle of a document.
Once again, you can use paragraph marks to help you find the problem. A page break looks like this:
To get rid of it, place the cursor at the beginning of the page break line and press Delete .
Section breaks are used when you want to split and format a document in different ways. They are subdivided into Next page , Odd page , and Even the page section cuts.
A section cut looks like this:
To remove it, place the cursor before the pause and press Delete .
Warning: Removing section breaks can mess up the formatting of your document. To remove the blank page but keep the different formatting styles, use a continuous break instead.
Did these four tips help you? Let us know how you clear your problematic blank page in the comments below.
